And yet we don’t want our posts to be fed into AI slop, nor do we want independent hosts to pay for the massive amount of traffic generated by a massive corporate entity to trying to consume data en masse.

The gay Republican I know is also deep in denial. Sad to see in all honesty

I’ll take the bear in case you were wondering too.

Care to explain what an awful choice that is?

Source?

Facts don’t care about your feelings etc etc

I remember NiCad batteries still being used in power wheels toys as a kid. For all I know they may still be, but the battery advancements have been particularly amazing.

I used to be a POS tech. It’s such a gross, mismanaged walled garden.

Currently I spend a lot of time advising against pop ups like that :^)

It works for some, I’d caution even trying it though. If the bag scales are enabled, the weight discrepancy will flag it. Depending on how sensitive it is and jaded the workers are they may just press the bypass without a care.

Alternatively, imaging scanners (non laser based) tend to have the option of “produce assurance” where the image of what was scanned/keyed is compared against the average entry. Too big of a discrepancy will flag and force manual verification.

I’ve also seen it used as niche industry abbreviations, which made me very uncomfortable at first, regardless of it being disused

This is huge. Thank you!